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enDespite Liberal Media Push, Poll Shows Vast Majority of Americans Aren't Offended by 'Redskins'http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2013/05/03/despite-liberal-media-push-poll-shows-vast-majority-americans-arent-of
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Try as they might, the liberal sports media&#39;s efforts to shame the Washington Redskins into ditching their team name out of political correctness concerns hasn&#39;t significantly moved public opinion. A brand new Associated Press-GfK poll found <a href="http://ap-gfkpoll.com/featured/our-latest-story-2">79 percent of respondents</a> favored keeping the name.</p>
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Of course in his story on the poll, AP&#39;s Ben Nuckols weighted his piece heavily with Skins detractors, including former Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell. &quot;There&rsquo;s a derogatory name for every ethnic group in America, and we shouldn&rsquo;t be using those words,&quot; the Colorado Republican complained. &quot;We probably haven&rsquo;t gotten our message out as well as it should be gotten out.&quot;</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 03 May 2013 20:16:08 +0000Ken Shepherd60130 at http://newsbusters.orgGallaudet Univ. Diversity Officer Who Signed Petition to Place 'Gay Marriage' on Md. Ballot Reinstatedhttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2013/01/12/gallaudet-univ-diversity-officer-who-signed-md-petition-place-gay-marria
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Angela McCaskill, Chief Diversity Officer at Gallaudet University, has been reinstated following three months of administrative leave which began after the university learned that she had signed a petition supporting the placement of an initiative to repeal recently passed legislation legalizing same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; on the Maryland ballot.</p>
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The headline <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GALLAUDET_GAY_MARRIAGE?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">at the Associated Press story</a> about Ms. McCaskill&#39;s statement (&quot;GAY MARRIAGE FLAP: GALLAUDET REINSTATES OFFICIAL&quot;) should have instead read &quot;free speech flap.&quot; That&#39;s what the McCaskill controversy was about, as the underlying AP story by Ben Nuckols, which virtually ignores the witch-hunt sentiment directed at her, still makes clear (bold is mine):</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:33:39 +0000Tom Blumer57584 at http://newsbusters.orgAP Writer Can't Even Accurately Relay the Small Number of 'Occupy the Highway' March Finishershttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2011/11/22/ap-writer-cant-even-accurately-relay-small-number-occupy-highway-finishe
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At the Associated Press <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OCCUPY_THE_HIGHWAY?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">this afternoon</a>, reporter Ben Nuckols opened his report on the completion of Occupy Wall Street&#39;s &quot;Occupy the HIghway&quot; march thusly: &quot;Drenched, blistered and weary, a few dozen Occupy Wall Street protesters arrived Tuesday in the nation&#39;s capital after a two-week, 240-mile march from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan.&quot;</p>
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Anyone reading Nuckols&#39;s opening statement would believe that at least 24 marchers completed the entire journey (I&#39;d say 36, but the dictionary <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/few">defines a &quot;few&quot;</a> as &quot;not many but more than one&quot;). Actually, that&#39;s not the case, as readers who somehow endure the intervening insipidness learn when they get to the report&#39;s seventh and eighth paragraphs:</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:03:51 +0000Tom Blumer48195 at http://newsbusters.orgAP Ignores B-more Mayor's Party Label, Worries Probe May 'Overshadow Her Successes'http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2008/06/19/ap-ignores-b-more-mayors-party-label-worries-probe-may-overshadow-her-
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Charm City has had Republican mayors before, but the last one was Theodore McKeldin, in the mid-1960s. His immediate successor was none other than Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) father, Thomas D'Alesandro III, so for native Marylanders like myself, it's easy to take for granted that the mayor of Baltimore is and ever will be a Democrat, and that mentioning the fact is redundant.But the national news media have an obligation to clue in readers about such things are party affiliation, and that's where, surprise, surprise, the Associated Press falls flat in its coverage of the recent raid of Mayor Sheila Dixon's private residence. But the missing (D) is not the only problem with the <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080618/ap_on_re_us/baltimore_mayor" target="_blank">June 18 article by Ben Nuckols</a>, who laments that Dixon's "successes" will be overshadowed by such a minor inconvenience as her alleged abuse of power (emphasis mine):<br /></p><blockquote> BALTIMORE - Sheila Dixon has reduced violent crime and gracefully handled a variety of crises since taking over as mayor in January 2007, but a two-year state investigation of her financial dealings as City Council president threatens to overshadow her successes.
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Arthur Bremer, the man who on May 15, 1972, attempted to assassinate then-Gov.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:21:56 +0000Ken Shepherd15272 at http://newsbusters.org